phalanx

With their heavy eyebrows and square jaws, they look like a fretful phalanx of Martin Scorseses reluctantly conceding that the movie is pretty fun.

He stood next to Saelee-McCain’s sisters on his left and a phalanx of FBI agents and Shasta County Sheriff’s Office deputies on his right.

Imagine a helmeted phalanx of Thracian soldiers advancing on an enemy.

On her drive up Lincoln Avenue, she had stopped and pulled over just before a security checkpoint where a phalanx of rifle-toting National Guard troops were checking the IDs of passing motorists.

“General Otis” borrowed from military vocabulary to call his L.A. mansion “the Bivouac” and his Times staff “the phalanx” as he built, and lorded over, a new Southland.